Category: memos

  • Happy Valentine’s Day ’25

    Not many years ago I walked around (I do mean around) auckland central and waited for the night to end sitting on the wharf at Waterfront.

    I would have wanted to listen to this.

    Thanks to Apple for this great ringtone. I played the melody with variations on my little keyboard in my office.

    The cover art is derived from the same Pixelmator project file as my upcoming … album … Gold. Hence the reuse of Voyager Golden disk imagery.

  • Dairy, 29 March 2018

    Cleaning digital archives feels like beachcombing at twilight – countless shards of memories wash ashore with each wave, their edges softened by time’s tides. We kneel to collect these cognitive mollusks, knowing most will crumble at a touch, yet still hoping to find one whorled chamber intact enough to whisper forgotten thoughts.

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  • [Photo Journal] Notes on my way to the Grave of Karl Schwarzschild

    My previous visit to the Göttingen City Cemetery was on the second of October, four months ago. I guess this is poised to become a tradition. Though, as this essay hopefully makes clear, future trips are unlikely to generate new essays or photo journals.

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  • Bio-Digital Jazz, Man

    I strongly resonate with Kevin Flynn in Tron: Legacy, in however I interpret this multifaceted statement.

    In Series …
    THE APERIODICALS
    Local (personal, potentially shallow, and subject to change) outlooks on science, technology, growth, and occasionally culture and history. The goal is to write something every week, but whether it can make its way to FWPhys is random. Hence the series title.

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  • Busy Expecting

    I believe the message has spent enough time in my mind1 so I can distill the original morning commute babble into a concise essay.

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